This month in culture: November 2024
What to watch this November
Books & Arts
A classic monument for World War One
Sabin Howard brings classicism back to the Mall
War, one artwork at a time
Ukrainian nationals and their allies have been working tirelessly to promote the voices of a people under siege
Twenty-five years of Fight Club and American Beauty
What the notorious films have to say about masculinity in crisis?
How controversial is The Apprentice?
Abbasi’s heady weaving of the antic and the deadly serious may explain some of the criticism that’s been leveled at the film
The real Kennedy men
Maureen Callahan challenges us to ask whether our American heroes are really who we think they are
Why Shakespeare remains the great playwright
Rhodri Lewis’s book offers so many fresh insights and well-turned phrases that I had to buy a new notebook to fit them all in
The Position of Spoons is flawed but fascinating
Deborah Levy’s latest book is a sketch of the author in motion
How music can be weaponized
Rebel Sounds is an uplifting compendium of hidden histories of those who have produced, performed and distributed music in times of war
The powerful, brutal story of Polish resistance fighter Elżbieta Zawacka
In Agent Zo , Clare Mulley has written a thrilling, consistently tense page-turner
Bored of the rings: ‘wokery’ takes on Tolkien
The chief sin of Amazon’s The Rings of Power is that it is often simply dull
